Valerie Shen

Valerie Shen is currently listed by G2 Venture Partners as an advisor. G2 Venture Partners describes itself as a venture and growth firm investing in emerging technologies that drive sustainable transformation across traditional industries.

Shen joined G2 Venture Partners as Chief Operating Officer in 2020. In that role, she was responsible for the firm’s operational functions, including fundraising and LP relations, recruiting and HR, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, and marketing. In July 2021, G2 announced her promotion to Partner alongside Zach Barasz and Monica Varman.

Before joining G2, Shen first worked with the G2 team in 2016 at Kleiner Perkins’ Green Growth Fund. She left in 2017 for Stanford, where she completed an MBA and a Master’s in Environment and Resources. Earlier in her career, she held roles at the U.S. Senate, X, Google’s “moonshot factory,” and McKinsey.

• G2 Venture Partners states that it invests in technology companies “at their inflection points” to build a sustainable future.
• The firm focuses on technologies that help traditional industries operate more efficiently and sustainably, with a stated philosophy of helping companies “do more with less.”
• G2 emphasizes deep climate-tech experience, sector expertise, and access to industrial networks as part of its value to founders.
• Shen’s publicly described role was operating-platform oriented rather than deal-attribution oriented: fundraising, LP relations, fund administration, impact reporting, legal, compliance, HR, recruiting, and marketing.
• The available public sources do not verify a personal angel-investor practice, seed-only stage focus, personal check size, or individual deal list for Shen.